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Klorfine Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$4.2MHealth$465kPhilanthropy$458kEducation$455kPublic Safety & Disaster$435kEnvironment$155kEmployment$120kYouth Development$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $785k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$87M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH FLORIDA PBS$500,000
WETA PBS NEWS HOUR$320,000
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST$250,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$150,000
PILCHUK GLASS SCHOOL$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION$100,000
PRATT$100,000
PALM BEACH SYMPHONY$75,000
MUSEUM OF GLASS$60,000
LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER$50,000
ARTIST TRUST$50,000
DISCOVERY CENTER & PIER$50,000
KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$50,000
VIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATION$35,000
MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION$35,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $445k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $5k → 13%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $5k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $125k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $45k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $25k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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OR
IN
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.0M · 31 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
33

Total granted

$5.0M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+39%

Still filing today

90%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $563k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +68%
  • TP
    THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +90%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2020–2024 · $395k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • OH
    OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $272k · revenue +40%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • CA
    CULTURAL AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PALM BEACH
    one grant, 2020 · $60k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
Washington Filmworks

To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…

Community Improvement
6
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
7
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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8
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
9
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
10
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
11
CRAFT3

To build a thriving, just and empowered pacific northwest using capital, relationships and voice.

Community Improvement
12
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Community College Foundatio…Local History MuseumsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Health Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Banks and PantriesJewish Community Organizati…Affordable Housing Developm…Community Arts CentersPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,494

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
39/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $800,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INCTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCWNET — $350,000 · Arts & CultureWNETMuseum of Glass — $320,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of GlassPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL — $300,000 · Arts & CulturePILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOLArtist Trust — $250,000 · Arts & CultureArtist TrustRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $220,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC+19 more — $428,000 · Arts & Culture+19 moreWETA PBS NEWS HOUR — $920,000 · OtherWETA PBS NEWS HOURUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONVIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATION — $145,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATIONPRATT — $100,000 · OtherSEATTLE SYMPHONY — $100,000 · Other+42 more — $755,850 · Other+42 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $395,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA — $40,000 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC — $275,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $4,000 · PhilanthropyOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $271,575 · HealthMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Health+2 more — $6,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationBainbridge Artisan Resource Network — $30,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami — $25,000 · EducationWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationISLANDWOOD — $95,000 · EnvironmentTOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION — $37,500 · EnvironmentFOR LOVE OF WATER — $20,000 · Environment+1 more — $5,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$3,168,000Other$2,270,850Human Services$445,000Philanthropy$329,000Health$317,575Education$180,000Environment$157,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $800,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $500,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $395,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWNET — $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Glass — $320,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL — $300,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC — $275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $271,575 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetArtist Trust — $250,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $220,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLANDWOOD — $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFARESTART — $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCLUB 100 CHARITIESINC — $71,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $70,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART — $60,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART — $45,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION — $37,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBellevue Sunrise Rotary Foundation — $35,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetBainbridge Artisan Resource Network — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEARTH CREATIVE — $27,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT FINE ARTS CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOR LOVE OF WATER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOTTERY NORTHWEST — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMain Line Art Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAGE ACADEMY OF ART — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…ArtsfundWyman Youth TrustM J Murdock Charitabl…The Bernstein Family …The Jon and Mary Shir…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Conru FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Dale and Leslie C…Marks Family Foundati…
Seattle FoundationWA32.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · Wyman Youth Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Bernstein Family Foundation · The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Conru Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation · Marks Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Klorfine Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines